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American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

The Serial Set is a compilation of U.S. Congressional publications published by the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives about the bills and resolutions involved in lawmaking. It also includes reports of executive departments, government-funded institutions, and other independent organizations. Documents in the Serial Set are arranged in numeric series chronologically (not topically). This collection offers detailed contemporaneous documentation of political, military, and governmental activities related to indigenous peoples of the continental United States and Alaskan territory during the 19th century. These government documents were scanned from the print collections of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the University of Oklahoma Libraries. They were identified using Steven L. Johnson’s bibliography, Guide to American Indian Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899, published by Clearwater Publishing Company in 1977. Permission for use of descriptive subject annotations was granted by ProQuest LLC as successor in title to ownership of this publication. Individuals responsible for creating the database are Marilyn K. Nicely, Retired Law Librarian for Native American Digitization at the University of Oklahoma Donald E. Pray Law Library; Steve Beleu, retired librarian, Oklahoma Department of Libraries; Jeffrey Wilhite, Documents Librarian at the University of Oklahoma Libraries; Elaine B. Bradshaw, Librarian and Digital Repository Manager, University of Oklahoma Donald E. Pray Law Library; and student workers, Sarah K. Capps and Jared Johnson.

Submissions from 1854 1854

Letter of J. C. Fremont to the editors of the National Intelligencer, communicating some general results of a recent winter expedition across the Rocky Mountains, for the survey of a route for a railroad to the Pacific.

Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1856.

Memorial of John Charles Fremont, praying that the Secretary of the Interior may be authorized to examine and settle, upon principles of equity, his claim for beef-cattle furnished by him under a contract with the Commissioner of the United States for treating with the California Indians, in 1851, for the use and subsistence of those Indians.

Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, praying that the horses and equipage purchased for Captain French's company of volunteers in the Creek War of eighteen hundred and thirty-six, may be paid for

Message from the President of the United States, communicating in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, further correspondence growing out of the treaty of Washington of July 4, 1850

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of July 10, 1854, correspondence and documents respecting the claims of persons for services performed, and supplies and subsistence furnished to the Indians, in California, under contracts with Indian agents, in 1851

Message from the President of the United States, communicating the report of an investigation of the charges of fraud and misconduct in office, alleged against Alexander Ramsey, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Minnesota

Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty Third Congress : State of the Union Address, 1854

Military post near Pembina River, Minnesota Territory. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 477.).

Moses D. Hogan. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 369.).

New Mexico -- Land claims. Memorial of the Legislative Council of New Mexico, in regard to land claims, &c

Oneida Indians.

On the Case of C. Seymour

On the Case of D. Carter

On the Case of Erwin and Greathouse

On the Case of G. Barrell et al.

On the Case of H. Conner

On the Case of T. Snodgrass

Pacific railroad surveys. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of surveys, &c., of railroad routes to the Pacific Ocean.

Priscilla C. Simonds. (To accompany S. bill No. 54.).

Receipts and expenditures. Communication from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1854.

Report : Claim of J. Shaw

Report : Claim of O. Love

Report : Memorial of C. Wallace

Report : Memorial of Gen Walback

Report : Memorial of G. Stealy

Report : Memorial of the Muscogee, or Creek Indians

Report : Mr. Adams

Report : Mr. Allen

Report : Mr. Allen

Report : Mr. Allen

Report : Mr. Benjamin

Report : Mr. Bright

Report : Mr. Broadhead

Report : Mr. Brown

Report : Mr. Brown

Report : Mr. Dawson

Report : Mr. Foot

Report : Mr. Johnson

Report : Mr. Jones, of Iowa

Report : Mr. Pettit

Report : Mr. Pratt

Report : Mr. Rusk

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1854

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1854

Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in the case of Alexander Ramsey.

Report of the Second Auditor of the Treasury, accompanied by copies of such accounts as have been rendered by persons charged with the disbursement or application of moneys, goods, or effects, for the benefit of the Indians, from July 1, 1852, to June 30, 1853, inclusive, with lists of the names of all persons to whom goods, moneys, or effects, have been delivered within the same periods

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1854

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, as to the fulfilment, on the part of the Government, of the stipulations of a treaty made with the Pottawattomies, on the 26th October, 1832

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a report made by R. H. Schoolcraft, on the state of Indian statistics.

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a report made by R. H. Schoolcraft, on the state of Indian statistics.

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating information, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the employment of Luther Blake to remove the Indians from Florida

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, made in compliance with a resolution of the Senate calling for a statement of the amount of money received and expended by Luther Blake, late agent for the removal of the Indians from Florida, the objects for which expended, and the number of Indians removed.

Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the state of the finances, for the year ending June 30, 1854.

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating (in compliance with a resolution of the Senate) information in relation to the contracts made for the removal and subsistence of the Choctaw Indians.

Report of the Secretary of War communicating the several Pacific railroad explorations.

Report on Cha-lah-kee, Muscogee, and Cha-ta Territories

Report on Indian War Claims

Report : Petition of G. Humphreys

Report : Petition of J. Beaubien

Report : Petition of Soldiers in Florida

Representatives of Joseph Watson, deceased. (To accompany Bill S. No. 224.).

Robert Grignon. (To accompany Bill H.R. 107.).

Schools for the education of the California Indians

Sidney P. Pool. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 486.).

Simeon Buckner -- Widow of.

Sioux lands or reservation in Minnesota Territory. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 338.).

Smithsonian Institution. Communication from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting the annual report of the Board of Regents of that institution

Special estimates for Indian service. communications addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, accompanied by special estimates and explanations thereof for the Indian service

Statements showing -- I. All appropriations made during the first session of the Thirty-third Congress. II. New offices created and the salaries of each. III. Offices the salaries of which are increased, and the amount of such increase.

Subterranean telegraph to the Pacific Ocean

Survey, etc., of road from Mendota to Big Sioux River. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the survey, &c., of road from Mendota to the Big Sioux River

Susan Coody and others. (To accompany S. bill No. 233.).

Terms of treaties hereafter to be made with certain tribes of Indians. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 210.).

Theodore E. Elliott. (To accompany S. bill No. 161.).

William B. Edwards. (To accompany Bill H.R. No. 180.).

William Senna Factor. (To accompany S. bill No. 136.).

Submissions from 1855 1855

Additional estimates for pay of Indian agents. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting additional estimates for pay of Indian agents.

Annual report -- Smithsonian Institution. Letter from the secretary of the Smithsonian institution, transmitting the annual report.

Annual report -- Smithsonian Institution. Letter from the secretary of the Smithsonian institution, transmitting the annual report.

Anthony W. Bayard

Army appropriations

Cherokee Indians -- Payment of interest. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, asking an appropriation for interest due the Cherokee Indians

Chickasaw Trust Fund. Letter from the Secretary of-the Treasury, transmitting annual report of funds held in trust for the Chickasaw Indians

Claim of J. K. Rogers, and other Cherokees. Letter from the commissioner of Indian affairs, in regard to the claim of J. K. Rogers, and other Cherokees.

Colonel John Hardin -- Heirs of

Delaware Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting reports in reference to the carrying out of treaty stipulations with the Delaware Indians

Dent, Vantine & co

Different Indian Tribes of Kansas -- To carry into effect treaties, &c. Message from the President of the United States, suggesting a modification of existing laws in reference to treaties with the Indian tribes of Kansas Territory, &c

Documents and other papers relating to the boundary line between the States of Georgia and Florida, heretofore laid before either House of Congress, and the Reports of Committees, and all proceedings of either House thereon.

Engagement between United States troops and Sioux Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information relating to an engagement between the United States troops and the Sioux Indians near Fort Laramie.

Estimates -- Sioux annuities. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimates for the transportation of the Sioux annuities, &c

Explorations and Surveys for Pacific Railroad, vol. 10: Reptiles, fishes, and miscellaneous zoology, with plates

Fort Scott Reserve

Frederick Schonmaker -- Heirs of

Garrison at mouth of Big Sioux River. Memorial and joint resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, asking the establishment of a garrison at or near the mouth of the Big Sioux River, in Iowa.

George R. Herrick

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